Site Area: 459 m²
Built Area: 855,6 m²
Completion Year: 2018

Rooftecture is a three-story residential project located in Kelapa Gading. Built on a 459-square-meter site, this project prioritizes elements of local wisdom and greenery.

This local wisdom is reflected in the Oversize Roof, a roof with a wide and high span, similar to the roofs of traditional Indonesian buildings. The roof is designed to overhang to create shadows for the rooms below.

Furthermore, the greenery in this project is implemented through gardens created on certain levels, oriented towards Public Pocket Gardens on the east and west sides of the project. This is designed to create integration from the inside to the outside of the site, and vice versa.

The openings designed in this project also considers cross ventilation to create good airflow in the active spaces. This project features a Movable Secondary Skin that not only functions to block western sunlight but can also be opened and closed by sliding to allow air and sunlight to enter the room at certain times.

The use of Sustainable Green Materials in this project utilizes the ADD Stone finish, created from a carbon footprint, which creates the impression of a stone finish applied to the entire building’s exterior. This aims to create a natural environment through the use of natural colors and textures.

Derived from the words Roof and Architecture, Rooftecture can be interpreted as ‘roof architecture’. In this project, the meaning of Roof itself is expanded to mean not only shade but also a sheltered space (space) within which various activities can take place. In the context of this project, this space serves as the owner’s private space, such as a hobby room, master bedroom, and work space.

Site Area: 205 m²
Built Area: 1,955.8 m²
Completion Year: 2023

The Theatre House is inspired by the dynamic flow of a theatre, with its split-level design representing tiered seating. The central open living space acts as the “stage,” seamlessly connecting indoor and outdoor areas. Large openings allow light and air to circulate, while natural materials like grey textured paint and wood evoke minimalist theatre sets. Upstairs, private rooms open to a terraced roof garden, merging performance, nature, and living into one cohesive experience.

The primary objective of the project is to establish a seamless connection between each program of the house by creating a split-level space throughout, from the initial encounter to the heart of the house. This design strategy also conveys a sense of spaciousness and unobstructed open space between the poolside terrace, living dining room, and covered multi-function terrace. The main hub of the house is an open space that serves as the living dining room, with an opening on both sides that overlook the outdoors. This placement allows natural air and light to freely circulate throughout the space. The planter box above the entrance portal provides a soft visual buffer from across the neighborhood to the living dining room, while also offering a garden view from within.

Located in Jakarta, Blown House is a private residential project with a designed area of +/- 1000 sqm. To fulfil the requirements that it should accommodate 10 people, the house consists of spacious living and dining rooms that fit 10 people, one master bedroom and two bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms. The house is also facilitated with one studio with home theatre system, dry kitchen with breakfast area, wet kitchen and swimming pool.

The studio is separated from the main building, creating a free-standing massing. Depicted as a sail within an ocean of green, the massing is blown to form access stairs and double-height space to house the main area, allowing generous natural light and view to a green field across the building.

Located in suburban Jakarta, Distort House is blessed with an exquisite surrounding of lush vegetation, which has become a luxury in the metropolitan city. Right in front of the site, lays a public park with some old tropical trees. In response to these advantages of the lush surrounding, TWS & Partners aims to create a living space with maximum view and connection to its green surrounding.

The building mass is split into private and public functions. Visitors are greeted by a spacious front yard, and by rotating the building by 15, they are spoiled by a richer quality of view from both inside and outside of the house. It offers a great interaction between the house and the lush surrounding and create a visual bridge of transition between the public park and the house itself.

The private area is positioned on the upper level so that it has endless view of tree leaves and endless feel of fresh air. The ground level is then fully maximized for public and semi-public area with a huge living room that connects directly to the surrounding garden creating the feel of living in the middle of a natural forest. Those areas are connected through a “twisted” staircase crossing a little semi-courtyard, bridging the whole mass as one experience of inside-outside, ground-upper, man-made and nature.

Repurposed material are applied in this house in a creative way; recycled wooden window, steel bar, and clay roof. The wooden window varies from top hung opening, swing opening, and fixed window. The patchwork pattern is created to retain the original size of each window, combined with louver, clear glass, and exposed concrete rooster creating a more dynamic patchwork pattern. The various size and shape of steel bar are also being rearranged to create the front gate and steel door handle. In each space, the columns and beams are exposed to its natural concrete plaster color, among the white walls. Wooden structure for the roof is applied with wooden ceiling finish made from recycled wooden plank that was once used for box packaging. The unglazed clay roof is also used as a responsive act toward environment. It can disperse up to 70 percent less heat into the house creating a cooler temperature inside the house.

As the result of the treatment to the mass, stairs, and roof, TWS & Partners achieved a distort angle of shape and form combined with a dynamic patchwork pattern facade created from the repurposed materials. For these reasons the house is called “Distort House”. Distort House represents the idea of new feel, new look, and new experience towards today’s environmental friendly home.

Cross House is a design concept that translates into a 800 sqm residential site. The design is to elaborate split level concept house, as the site is divided into two different ground levels. In response to the fact above, the program is divided into two massing, which are connected to each other with steps, crossing across the two area.

This split mass level creates a sequence of space and make a clear separation between public and private area.

The grey granite stone used to clad the facade, is juxtaposed with a glass wall, creating an understated building appearance.

E House stands for Evolution House, which means a step-by-step design process, in forming the space and architecture elements. The design strategy is an attempt to break the old believe that architecture cannot go along with fengshui methods.

Then superimposing one space/element to another as an additive design strategy, results in the rich inter penetrated space and mass, forming a new inter connected and penetrated architectural language.

The building program, shape, facade and material is dictated by the specific energy within each divided area (according to fengshui geometric symbol).

This strategy is resulting the dynamic and unpredictable space and architectural form.

Site Area: 983 m²
Build Area: 1,058 m²
Completion Year: 2017

Located at a mountainous area in Bandung, the site takes benefit from the beautiful surrounding of deep valley. It also has an added advantage because of its proximity to the forest conservatory, which provides tranquil quality of the mountain site.

Entering the building from street level, guest are led to entrance level or second floor, where they can enjoy the surrounding view through an open timber pathway, side by side with water garden as a welcoming element. Then visitors will pass through the shaded circulation to living room and dining room. Living and dining room offer open view to water garden and timber deck that leads a gazebo and Jacuzzi. The shifted orientation at the upper level provides shading to the open wooden deck terrace underneath it. The materials used in this building consist of natural concrete wall and slab, recycled wooden rib, and green tinted glass.

The idea of the building mass is originally taken from stacking boxes which are rotated through their corner axis, in order to create different walking experience from different angle of view. This strategy also allows the users to have different orientation in different room and have almost 270 degree view to surrounding valley. Timber shading horizontal and vertical circulation wrapped ‘behind’ the box, provides a second skin to building’s rear facade which gives privacy from front side of the building.

Located in a typical urban housing complex, which predominantly consists of semidetached housing, this project elaborates the indoor and outdoor relationship. The parcel is located at the end corner of the block and adjacent to the public park, which is seen as a directing point to the space planning concept. The tropical climate is taken as a main consideration to drive the architectural geometry concept, along with the material chosen.

Going through the house is an experience right from the very first entrance through the fence and end to the guest living room. Rather than the conventional space layout, semi-private family room is positioned at the front corner, elevated 3 meters above the street level. By doing so, the family gets the maximum view of the public park. Consequently, there is a pedestrian ramp all the way from the main entrance through the over flow swimming pool to the guest living room at the back part of the land, thus create the walking experience to the visitor.

The building envelopes itself using the floor to ceiling glass skin, in order to maximize surrounding view. The sliding folding glass door system makes the family room as flexible as ‘tropical’ terrace, adjacent to the infinity swimming pool. Using the 3,5 meter span of metal louver canopy, the master bedroom on the second floor was covered from the afternoon sunlight, without sacrificing the generous view to the adjacent public park from inside.

Inside the modern tropical architecture style of the building, TWS & Partners tries to put a traditional interior element, like semi-transparent wall partition in the family room, to soften the atmosphere. A piece of natural wood used as a dining table gives a warm feeling to this area as the main heart of this residence. In the master bathroom, gallery concept is elaborated, with the rectilinear space arrangement, which maximize the natural daylight through the gap between the room with the perimeter wall. The color and material palette are the earthy, creamy color contrasting with dark, aged and rustic wood appearance.

Located in a residential area in North Bandung, The Long House is surrounded by fancy old houses and lots of large trees. Sited in the midst of serenity and far from heavy traffic, The Long House becomes a comfortable place to settle. In response to these advantages, the building is designed to receive a sufficient amount of natural light and views to the outside. The building mass is designed to be slightly tilted in order to create a different sight from the surrounding neighbourhood.

Long and horizontal in shape, the living room, dining room and dry kitchen are designed without the use of partition to make the space more spacious. Extensive use of reinforced glass as its enclosure enhances the space to be more open and provides natural ventilation system. To improve the natural cooling system in the building, water pond is added to reinforce the cooling system naturally. Large amount of openings also provide more outdoor views for the owner to enjoy the outdoor features such as vegetation and sound of water creating tranquil atmosphere. The use of different plantings surrounded the building functions as the act of sustaining.

The Long House is mostly constructed with concrete and wood as its main material, combined to create the tropical and modern atmosphere inside and outside the building. White concrete wall represents the modernity and is being used because of its rigidity and durability. On the contrary, wood represents the locality, heat resistance and authenticity. Both materials create a harmony between the past and the new and clean look.

Site Area: 420 m²
Completion Year: 2017

Music House is a 420 sqm residential built at Alam Sutera, Indonesia, for a musician family. This house is designed to cater the activity of family and guests, such as playing instruments, recitals and rehearsals. It is a project of poetic arts, that carries continuity and harmony of strains of musical tones as its design concept. The final shape is a result of transformation of one basic form into a seamless form that promotes continuity and connectivity from first floor to second floor. The idea of continuity and harmony are adapted in the building through in-depth exploration of layout, materials and details.

The facade consists of 2 types of element, solid and semi-transparent, just like how music has vocal weight. Solid facade illustrates heavy tones such as tenor, baritone or bass; semi-transparent facade illustrates high singing tones like soprano. The “solid element” is represented by materials like concrete, while the “semi-transparent element” is represented with glass and concrete grill to create the not-so-transparent effect.

The final shape of the building is a translation of one basic form into a seamless form that promotes continuity and connectivity from first floor to second floor level. The building mass at the back is created higher than the front to recite the flow of music tones, similar to how the music goes from low tone to high tone. From interior perspective, this house minimizes the use of partitions to create continuous and open living space. The stairs create the flow of space, and also functions as a space for displaying artworks. Inside the house, a large semi-transparent space functions as a living room. Then, the space continues to dining and kitchen area, and a large terrace with skylight functioned as an area for music rehearsal. The terrace is enclosed with curved pivot doors with glass to create dynamic look and open plan.

Located in Jakarta, Wall Less House is another residential project with a total area of 600 sqm. This house consists of living and dining area, one master bedroom, one studio room, two kids bedrooms, and one guest bedroom.

The ground level is lifted 2.8 meter above ground to provide a privacy and spacious open living dining area with an outdoor opening on three sides.

To separate the zone within the open area, the folded partition is hanging from ceiling. This strategy also provides a canopy form tropical sunlight.

This project is located in Padang, Sumatera Island, the west part of Indonesian archipelago. Padang is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the Pacific ring of fire. The site has an irregular, trapezoid shape, with low-rise neighbourhood surrounding. The space is arranged parallel into one side of land and the main pitch roof parallel into another side. The result is an unpredictable, rich in details and playful space throughout the house. Thus the name Shifted House.

The pitch roof is made out of corrugated aluminium metal roof, which is light weight, to accommodate the anti-earthquake structure, ensuring safety for the occupants. The aluminium louver attached to the upper and vertical part of the building is to give rhythm and, in some parts, acts as a mild space separation. This architectural language is a sympathetic respond to the surrounding neighbourhood.

Guests are greeted by the in-outdoor space, as if floating in the middle of reflecting pond. The roof and outer part of the welcoming foyer is constructed out of wooden-textured aluminium, arranged so that they create a play of shadow on the concrete-finished wall. From there guests are led by the pathway, parallel to the pond, to the “separate” living pavilion. The rooms are arranged on another side, facing the perimeter garden, creating a private zone area to the residents.

Stacking house is a residential project located in Jakarta. This house provides personal space for each member of the family. One master bedroom with a lounge and a walk-in closet, 3 kids bedrooms with a shared bathroom, guest bedroom, and parent’s bedroom with walk in closet. The family area is living and dining room that can gather up to 10 people, completed with grand piano. Other supporting areas such as garage, service area, both dry and wet kitchen are also provided to supply the needs of family members. As an addition, there are also private gym and spa area.

Located on a 600 sqm land area, the challenge was housing such a big program, and to realize the dream to have a garden house concept.

So the strategy is to stack the garden house one above another and positioning the yard on the front side.

Then we have the garden house which have the spacious view from inside.

Located in a very dense area in West Jakarta, Split House is a renovation and extension project on a 6 x 15 meters land, owned by a family of four. The aim is to provide a comfortable and adequate working space combined with a living space in one place. Both spaces need to be separated well to serve the functions.

The name of “Split House” is derived from the concept that visualizes two houses with slope roof that stand on two different land lots. One of them is rotated 180 degrees, so they are opposing each other. The family of four is accommodated in the part that has slope going down to the front street, while the other part of the house is the entrance for office space. The zone separation of living and working space is vertical, where the ground level is intended for office function and the upper level is used for living space. After passing the courtyard, there is a gallery space, directing visitors to vertical circulation area at the back. Vertical circulation is made in zigzag shape, imagining it as an artwork element filling the void area at the back. The gallery space is also used as an additional space for working area of the office if it is needed.

The position of family room on the second floor is intended to achieve privacy as well as visual protection from outdoor area. Meanwhile TWS & Partners still preserves the connectivity of views and natural air circulation between the family room with the outdoor area within the foreground of a tree from the courtyard. Entering further, the Master bedroom and kids bedroom are located at the sides of family room. These layout suits the best as a balance circulation to all residences of the house. Family room becomes a loft under the slope ceiling and roof that eventually direct the natural light and air to come in. This loft concept space for the family room also let the visual continuity to the front courtyard. The third floor is set up with casual lounge space for the family with the roof garden that produces an active natural air circulation changing with the front courtyard.

Water Cascade house is a project located in Jakarta with a total area of +/- 2,200 sqm. There are two separate buildings in this house, the first building is the main private building and the second building is function room. The function room was designated for a small office. This house is also facilitated with garden and fish pool as a design element.

Imagine as a series of overlapping, stacking, and cascading water pond. The massing is arranged coming down from public at the front, to private at the rear. Waterscape becomes a background for the architecture and unity for various programs.

Barito Residence is a residential project located in in a commercial and business district in South Jakarta. There are a total of 6-7 units built in approximately 300-400 sqm building area on top of 160-200 sqm land area for each unit.

To maximize its small land area, each unit consists of 3 stories with semi-basement and roof top. An attic space beneath the pitch roof, creates the indoor-outdoor space experience to house the master bedroom “pavilion”.

Located in Tangerang, Alam Sutera Residence is one of the housing projects TWS and Partners had worked on. We were assigned to design 3 type of housing in cluster Victoria. Each type is different in size and layout.

Type A, the land area is 240 sqm (10 x 20 meter) with 260 sqm built area. This 2-storey house includes 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, powder room, guest room, living room, dining room, pantry, kitchen, storage room, garage for 1 car, laundry area, and a seating area on the second floor.

The second largest Type B, the land area is 300/360 square meter (12 x 25/30 meter), with 275 sqm built area. In this type, there are 2 options of layout. The first one with 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms with powder room, guess room, living room, dining room, pantry, kitchen, storage room, garage for 1 car, laundry area and sitting area at second floor. While the second one with 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms with powder room, guest room, living room, dining room, pantry, kitchen, storage room, garage for 2 cars, laundry area, and seating area on the second floor.

For the largest, Type C, the land area is +/- 350-420 sqm with 300 sqm built area. This type consists of 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, powder room, guest room, living room, dining room, pantry, kitchen, storage room, garage for 2 cars, laundry area, and seating area on the second floor.

The idea is to have an entrance foyer/guest lounge, separate from the main living and dining area, like a self-standing pavilion. A gentle ramp leads guests to the pavilion, creating a subtle, spatial experience in entering the house.

Located in South Jakarta, The Batik is an apartment that caters to middle-high class segment. The site is surrounded by 2-3-storey middle range housing, making The Batik the only high rise building at its region.

Being the only high rise building in the area, The Batik adapt the concept of a tree. A tree has a very special characteristic as a shade where it still allows sunlight and breeze to penetrate throughout its branches and leaves, therefore allowing the smaller vegetation surrounding it to get enough sunlight. Thus, the design of The Batik aims to make sure that sunlight and breeze can still reach through the building to a low rise neighborhood surrounding. Entering the building, guests are taken to the Ground Floor level. Here they are greeted by supporting facilities such as convenience store. Above Ground Level, there is Hillside Level, with two-story height to maximize the view to its surrounding. This level hosts apartment facilities such as swimming pool and club house, and two units of town house. Above Hillside, there is Lowzone, that consists of small apartment units like studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom with several pocket gardens and balcony for each unit. Going upwards is Midzone, consists of three-bedroom units that have service area and bigger pocket gardens that allow light and air to penetrate into the building. Highzone Level consists of four exclusive penthouse units that run along from the front to the back of the building, giving them maximum view to their surrounding as well as cross-ventilation. The top, Sky Level, is designed for a Multifunction Room with a unique form. The Multifunction Room is surrounded by an infinity pool that creates an optical illusion as if it was floating on the water.

The layout of The Batik is inspired by how tree allows light to penetrate through the ground by creating a porous solid mass. To allow a more flexible layout, the vertical circulation of the building is placed at each end of the building. This allows the center area to be subtracted creating a more porous and open mass that later filled with pocket garden and apartment unit. The area between the vertical circulation and main mass is also subtracted to create void that allows natural air and sufficient sunlight to penetrate through the lower level of the building. Moreover, just like the leaves of a tree that keep growing denser as it grows up, The Batik also create denser greeneries as it goes higher, making it literally the biggest tree around. The Batik use a lot of wooden material to enrich the textured looks of the building to mimic the texture of tree bark. Grill louver is used as the cover of the lifts and emergency stairs. The grill louver is made of steel hollow with Batik print on it to enrich the look of the building. The Batik is expected to become a big tree that shades the smaller surroundings without blocking all the sunlight and breeze.

Depadi Residence is a design proposal for an apartment project in South Tangerang, Indonesia. TWS & Partners proposed a concept of urban terrace to create connection of the activity from street level to mountain level. This green terrace steps up and leads up to the mountain level where activities of the residents are happening. The mountain level consists of apartment facilities such as jogging track, pool, and leisure area. Ground level functions as a parking area in order to minimize construction cost. Both towers are designed to maximize light, views, and north-south orientation. The facade captures the sense of a tropical dwelling by creating several forms of sun shade such overhangs and greenery to provide comfortable spaces. It is also being formed into a rice paddy shape.

Through this project, TWS & Partners proposed a solution for a way of living in a high density tropical urban area which satisfies the demand of space while still provides a close-to-nature environment.

Graha Hijau Residence is a housing complex located in Jakarta. The design area is classified into two: a site plan of 50.000 sqm and a club house area of 3000 sqm. There are 6 house types available in this complex, each type comes with corner variant. Those 6 types are classified in different sizes, starting from 90-150 sqm for the built area.

Located in the heart of Jakarta, Savron Residence is a part of a 100 hectares master plan, that comprise of residential and mixed-use area.

The design lot was adjacent to the commercial district area, and programmed to become high end, low-rise and mid-rise and high-rise residential.

At the entrance of the complex, is twenty-story Sky Park Residence, which acts as a visual gate from adjacent commercial district. The Club that serves as a main arrival hall, sport and leisure facility, also serves as service distribution to the whole Savron complex. To serve the function, The Club is located at the center of the complex. The villa compound is located along the curvilinear circulation and park corridor facing towards the Club. At the south-end of the site, another ten to twenty-story residence as a compound of sky-villages.

The master plan design wishes to embrace typical traditional arrangement, which allows the public pathway in front of the house to become public theater. Based on this basic concept, TWS & Partners designed a multi-layer ground access to the villa, which means that there are two separate level access. Access for automobiles is positioned on street level, enhanced by the atrium dry garden, and on the same level there are foyer and guest room. Entrance to pedestrian is on a second level, which layout becomes semipublic activities, comprised of living, family and dining room. These room has the view to public or pedestrian park in front of each unit. Family room as the heart of the villa, has maximum access to natural lighting and air. Bedrooms are located on the second and third floor, facing the park.

The Club also has multi-entry points, from street level and park level. From these double height atriums, they become the starting point to the different activities that are divided into both levels, street and park. The third floor is used as a multi-function glass room, which has undulating glass roof, which form is taken from natural mountainous landscape.

The Sky Park Residence is the high-rise residential, and located in the mouth of Savron complex, and considered to act as a visual gateway from adjacent commercial district. The skyline is considered to have a dialogue with the commercial block in front of the complex, and also to meet a certain marketing requirement that makes the project viable from financial aspect.

Setia Eco Park is located amidst a coconut palm plantation, in Syah Alam district, 15 minute-ride from Kuala Lumpur. The site where the building is located, is part of the master plan of a satellite city, which contains residential, and other supporting facilities. Bringing Green Environment concept that enhance tropical style, yet unique, modern and sustainable, Setia Eco Park is dedicated to middle to upper class segment.

The layout was arranged that indoor space was shaped in pure geometrical box, which is arranged juxtaposes and interconnects one to another, with a gap in between. This allows natural airflow and direct sunlight to come in as much as possible. Vertically, the arrangement was created in such way that they juxtapose perpendicular one to another to create the spaces in between for roof gardens. TWS & Partners create the roof gardens to catch rainwater to replace the ground that is covered by the buildin. This also give added values to the rooms at upper level as a direct outdoor green space for them. The choice of texture and colors of this building refer to the richness and diversity of Asian Architecture. The top part of the building uses wide canopy, which plays a double function, as a base for solar panel, as well as its function as a canopy.

In the bustling city life, people often miss the experience of living in the village or kampung. Walking to the coffee shop for a meal, buying things from the market, and playing in the garden are activities that people can easily do in the village as they are located nearby. D’Orange Park is a result of reinterpretation of a village into a modern form and has taken to re-branding the homes as “co-living” spaces. The challenge of the project is the desire in forming a new and distinctive architecture programs that TWS & Partners try to infuse in an apartment project. D’Orange Park presents the opportunities for the residents to shape their bonds, interact and collaborate. Therefore, this environment is intended to promote diversity and create dynamic community.

The idea of co-living: “Play-Work-Live-Public” has been applied at D’Orange Park, where the residents can work, play, and live at the same place. This new trend of living is going mainstream among people as they continue to grow with this lifestyle and working environment. TWS & Partners envisioned it as an ecosystem of working spaces, residences, food park, live kitchen that served the new concept of community living. The use of orange color in the building represents an energetic, bright, and uplifting color. This color is being associated with the color of autumn season, to create a feeling of warmth.

Unlike other typical apartments, D’Orange Park attempts to bring all the human activities at the communal park located at the third floor of the building. At the communal park, co-working spaces, laundry, gym, swimming pool, live kitchen, and communal stair are all gathered. The bike lane, that surrounds the site and runs from street level to communal park level, promotes health benefits and provides fun activity for the residents.

TWS & Partners explored the possibility of this new “co-living” concept by combining several new programs such as co-working spaces, live kitchen, bike lane, and etc into one place. This trend of co-living and co-working will be a major breakthrough for future residential development.